Description

Al Jazeera for Android brings you all the latest news and live broadcast of Al Jazeera English, free of charge.

The 24-hour news and current affairs channel is the first international English-language news channel to broadcast across the globe from the Middle East.

Al Jazeera's global footprint continues to grow and now broadcasts to more than 220 million households on six continents in more than 100 countries.

What's New

- Share stories on Facebook, Twitter, and email- Add and remove social accounts and update weather location through settings- Upload photos and videos directly to Al Jazeera through the new Your Media section- Listen to live audio broadcast- View weather forecasts by location- Easily delete articles from the My News section- Save stories to My News for easy access- View comments that have been added to stories by website viewers

Well.... I'll start by stating two things. First thing is that the news reporting in the west is 90% bias. What actually happened you'll never know unless you were there in person. Second thing is i , personally only watch your channel or BBC. Thank you for shooting it from the hip.

Reviews

4.1

23,415 total

5 13,449

4 4,612

3 2,150

2 1,178

1 2,026

Dmitri Sampson

Whilst the app is great for providing news both to read and on the live stream to watch and the channel is one of the best I've found with fair unbiased reporting. That being said the app itself keeps randomly playing audio after the app has been opened and you have to go to the app and most of the time reboot phone to stop stream from appearing again. This has been occurring for over 6 months. Come on AJ time to fix!!! This would be amazing if not for this issue

Alastair Ross

At first it seemed good but now every news story I tap takes me to the same clip about a cricketer who died. Something ain't working which is disappointing as Al-Jazeera is a good channel for global news. Hope you can update this App soon cos I value the wider perspective you provide. I have even tried uninstalling and re-installing without success.

Django B

I really like the news reports and the depth of your research. But unfortunately the app isn't working properly. I use it daily and I will continue to use it, but it doesn't work like it's supposed to. It's a minor inconvenience, but I would really appreciate it if you could make it work as supposed to. Keep up the fantastic job of reporting the news. You are second to none.

Sidharth Ravi

Please stop letting the app play audio on its own! If I'm playing music simultaneously the apps audio continues to play along with the music. Which means I have to close the app to listen to music or stop music to read the news. And I don't even know where the audios coming from or what it's about. Great app otherwise. Want to use it more if not for this annoyance.

I have followed AJ regularly, and really love their documentaries etc. They are a great source of knowledge. The app however, even though it delivers good news, is not upto the mark. The app, once I open it, keeps playing live news, even after I have shut the app or the phone. Also when I try to share news through WhatsApp, the app crashes.

User reviews

Dmitri Sampson October 1, 2017

Whilst the app is great for providing news both to read and on the live stream to watch and the channel is one of the best I've found with fair unbiased reporting. That being said the app itself keeps randomly playing audio after the app has been opened and you have to go to the app and most of the time reboot phone to stop stream from appearing again. This has been occurring for over 6 months. Come on AJ time to fix!!! This would be amazing if not for this issue

At first it seemed good but now every news story I tap takes me to the same clip about a cricketer who died. Something ain't working which is disappointing as Al-Jazeera is a good channel for global news. Hope you can update this App soon cos I value the wider perspective you provide. I have even tried uninstalling and re-installing without success.

I really like the news reports and the depth of your research. But unfortunately the app isn't working properly. I use it daily and I will continue to use it, but it doesn't work like it's supposed to. It's a minor inconvenience, but I would really appreciate it if you could make it work as supposed to. Keep up the fantastic job of reporting the news. You are second to none.

Please stop letting the app play audio on its own! If I'm playing music simultaneously the apps audio continues to play along with the music. Which means I have to close the app to listen to music or stop music to read the news. And I don't even know where the audios coming from or what it's about. Great app otherwise. Want to use it more if not for this annoyance.

I have followed AJ regularly, and really love their documentaries etc. They are a great source of knowledge. The app however, even though it delivers good news, is not upto the mark. The app, once I open it, keeps playing live news, even after I have shut the app or the phone. Also when I try to share news through WhatsApp, the app crashes.

If I open the app to read one article then go back to other apps, it will often start playing audio hours later about subjects I wasn't reading about. When I am listening to audio in a different app then pause it this app will start playing. When I hit play again it plays both sources and doesn't pause al Jazeera. There is no way to stop the audio unless I restart my phone. Other than this I think al Jazeera is great

I like the stories and the app generally, but I have repeatedly been unable to share the stories by any method from my Android phone. Whenever I try to share on Facebook, Gmail, or even just create a link, I get the message that the App has stopped working. I have reported this, reloaded the App, and asked for help, but nothing has yet changed. There must be a glitch in the App. It is the only news source app that behaves this way. Please fix it.

Excellent news source. I've had it on my phone for a few years, and check it out several times daily. I only wish they didn't keep some news items on it for so long. Still my "go to" news source after several years. I only wish you would fix the email issue. The app crashes whenever I try to share an article. This problem still exists. Please fix. And still does. No answer? 01.20.18.

Content wise it has the characteristically good appeal of aljazeera. But the app itself is disastrous: it starts putting on the news at random, even when I haven't opened the app. This must be fixed, it's quite abusive.

This app really make sense and satisfy. But , have there are some challenges, especially I can't received and getting new news feed and notification . however , if there is solution, please short-out these challenges for me...

Great reporting great service but it does randomly decide to load what sounds like the livestream whilst the app is in the background. Which means if I don't properly close the app it will just start spewing stories randomly throughout the day when my phone is locked, kind of embarrassing on public transport.

I'm fed up of getting notifications all the time. There appears to be no logical way of turning them off. Please add option to turn off Notifications otherwise I will have to uninstall. Otherwise love the news items - hate the app delivering them.

When the headline implies one thing and the actual content eventually reveals another, well buried fact, then you have misleading, if not outright, biased reporting. I'll stick to real honest reporting such as Reuters.

When reading a specific article, in the background there's a totally different video running. I don't whether it's a marketing scam or what but it is distracting and annoying as hell. If you don't make suitable changes for this issue, I'm afraid I'll have to move on to BBC or The Guardian.

All international media towards 3-4 media agency/AP, Retures.etc mindset,where they creating a mindset to hate islam But a small country channel Al JAzeera wake up for fight and find & seek the truth. Kudos 🙌

If you are having the same audio problem as everyone else, you don't need to shut the app down. Just select "Watch" from the side menu and then pause the video. My rating will stay as three stars until this is fixed.

Live feed starts playing in background when app starts, annoying. Pressing notifications doesn't work unless app has been fully closed and pressing back from there closes app instead of going to main page, silly. Only reason I keep it is because I have respect for the journalism from them. But seriously, the app needs work.

I have enjoyed articles from another part of the world and view point. However, articles written as a commentary should say so and not written as if the article was an unbiased article. Telling americans what they should do or not due based on an individuals opion is just that an opinion. And should day so.

Great App. I am truly amazed that unbiased news reporting is still out there and not just money making business so thanks Al Jazeera network. And keep doing the good work and all the best. It's so to the root and some of the investigation I have seen were so interesting and must know thing around the world. So do continue and bring to the world true facts with honesty...

Love the news and everything, but you have to fix this problem of audio clips playing after you close the app. There's no way to stop it unless you close the app, so you can't look at another app and come back to it without it being annoying

Good for reporting mainly on middle East news. Not too biased, which is very good for the region. It is also nice to have different views on the news. I live in Britain, have no religion and have had no contact with the company - just in case anyone queries this!!!

Great news site. Live streaming is broken. App is unusable until this is fixed. Starts playing at random times in the background. No way to turn it off. Even when closing the app. Forced to restart the phone everytime this happens. 5 stars when it's fixed.

WARNING, THIS APP WILL KILL ALL YOUR DATA AND COST YOU LOTS OF MONEY. I'm so mad at this app. I love aljazeera and want to be able to read their articles on the go. But I've noticed that often times when I leave an article open on my phone to read later, audio will start playing from the app from videos that are unrelated to the article I have open. My audio was turned all the way down so I didn't notice until I got a data alert saying I went 3x over my limit and it's only the second day of the month. Needless to say I'm pissed! How can they not fix this basic issue it's been a problem since I got the app over a year ago?!

Credible news source, great app. Would a lot better if it doesn't keep playing the news automatically. It's bit annoying, especially when something that's being played in the background gets paused or stopped.

Well.... I'll start by stating two things. First thing is that the news reporting in the west is 90% bias. What actually happened you'll never know unless you were there in person. Second thing is i , personally only watch your channel or BBC. Thank you for shooting it from the hip.

It has been just over 6 months since my routine began by keeping an eye on and learning about the other locations from the middle East and other worldwide experiences and events through the eyes and ears of the highly persistent reporting through Al Jazeera. The ongoing investigations and story telling from this group of on the ground reportage and sharing their retrospectives and personal experiences from such a diverse group of men and women and children. Thanks for trying to share the news and personal stories in times that matter. What ever faith or personal motive that drives you should be at least heard about. Al Jazeera keep up and please keep it real you are doing a wonderful job of sharing the events that are shaping our global home. Thank you and stay safe.

This app gets stuck on the loading screen quite a bit. Everytime I open it I have to force stop it when I'm done otherwise it'll start playing a news story without me choosing one (sometimes hours after I've used the app).

Great news site. The app used to be great as well, but now it's stuck in landscape. I've tried uninstalling,. Clearing data, etc. If this gets fixed and the app becomes usable again it would be a great app.

I now read this amazing news source in my down time instead of the trifling articles of Facebook. Though often I am brought to tears I appreciate a non US perspective. I appreciate the information covered thank you!

I like 99%of the app. However, it auto plays audio which keeps playing even after exiting the app, which sometimes pauses audio you are listening to and sometimes just plays under it. I had no idea how to fix it until another review mentioned pausing the video in the watch tab. I've never used the watch tab. Please fix!